My Early Morning Revelation RE: Speaking One's Mind

With the loss of Congresswoman Bachmann’s entertaining
national road show performances come next year, I thought it might be useful to
take a moment to analyze the underpinnings of her and her like minded Tea
Bagger’s popularity. One of the
comments praising the good Congresswoman is that she “speaks her
mind.” And I accept this assertion as
true. For me however, I picture her mind
as a kind of mental cranberry bog that year after year bears no fruit; a soggy,
wet and barren field of dreams turned into a nightmare scenario worthy of a
Quentin Tarantino flick. Am I alone in
finding it a scary prospect to think that this where her pronouncements are
born? Thinking about it a bit longer
though, I suppose this is the same positive sentiment right wingers and Tea
Baggers hold towards Rush and Glenn and all those other “pundits” who pollute
the airwaves these days with their untruthful, lying, crazy, ranting,
vitriolic pronouncements.
I mean if you’ve ever heard Glenn Beck go on and on and on about the
Black Panther/Nazi Party roots of the Obama Administration - with diagrams no less - you have to wonder exactly
on what planet this man lives; it cannot
be Planet Earth.

But it occurs to me that my analysis of the speech of the
right wing’s most famous cheerleaders misses the point of Michelle’s, Rush’s
and Glenn’s popularity among a fairly substantial swath of the American
public. And, yes, one can say that it’s
the “low information” segment of the public but still that’s a whole lot of
people. It’s not that Michelle et al are
espousing brilliantly cogent views filled with thought provoking analysis (they
aren’t) but from their audiences’ point of view it is the simple fact that they “speak his/her/their mind(s)” that’s important. They, unlike the liberal
media pundits, Obama, Nancy and Harry, et al are honestly expressing the thoughts
that form in their heads. For some
reason even after years of hearing this praise (has it really been less than five
years since Obama was first elected?
Seems like we’ve been listening to this crap for a generation.) about
their straightforwardness, honesty and “tell it like it is” character of speech
that pours forth
endlessly, it didn’t strike me until today what this is all about. Seriously.
Maybe I’m just slow when it comes to recognizing stupidity for what it
is, but suddenly today it just struck me: “Ahhhhhh….” I said to myself in an
awesome firestorm of revelatory grace. “So That’s It!!!!” To whit:

THEY SPEAK THEIR MINDS!!!!!!

This, I now understand, is simply the alpha and omega, the beginning,
middle and end, of what they are talking about. No more.
All you have to do is think about the phrase itself - “they speak their minds” - as it stands in
all its simple yet glorious stark reality.
Don’t analyze, don’t parse, don’t attempt to research the etymologies,
or pick apart the phrase’s structure, nor attempt to figure out what the metaphor really
means. No!

Just read the phrase again and then stop. Don’t think. Just stop- no additional thought (let your
brain take a momentary break) - and you have the answer.

THEY SPEAK THEIR MINDS!!!!!!!

See? Easy isn’t it? This
is the cosmic answer that dawned on me this morning like a comet rushing though
my brain cleansing it of a lifetime of extraneous clutter.
What the right wingers mean when they praise someone for “speaking his/her/their
minds” is just that – from their lips spews forth WORDS, the “truth” meaning
that what is being said (no matter how flaky or ridiculous we might consider
it) is precisely what the speaker was thinking a millisecond prior to uttering
whatever inanity it is he/she has uttered. No! No! Don’t go there yet. Just hold this
picture in your mind for a nanosecond: the
neurons flashing, the electrically encoded message travelling down nerve
branches and neural pathways to signal the vocal cords into action. Suddenly: Speech!

It
was only this morning that I realized that when Minnesota’s Tea Bagger
Congressional Representative Bachmann says “Our founding fathers worked
tirelessly to end slavery” she was SPEAKING HER MIND! She was speaking the truth: yes, admittedly
“her truth,” a peculiar form of truth plucked, perhaps, out of the ether
surrounding Planet Earth as the Greeks once envisioned, letting the
words flow, allowing the electrical impulses to jet unimpeded by analysis or
scrutiny from brain to vocal cords to then enter our ears with no PC filter
lets say. Pure, unadulterated mind-speak
so to speak. I mean in this day and age
of the meaningless utterances that pass for wisdom and insight, what more can
you ask of a public official? The gentle
lady from Minnesota is just being honest in her beliefs (of course I do shudder at the nature of the
“mind” that produces these beliefs) and for right wingers it goes no
further. I repeat:

IT GOES NO FURTHER!

The very fact that she is SPEAKING HER MIND is all that
matters. Does it matter that she is
speaking demonstrable “untruths” as it relates to American history? Ummmm. No.
When Glenn says that the Obama Administration is filled with secret
Black Panther/Communist infiltrators does it matter to the right wing that
there is not a shred of factual basis for his thesis? No, of course not. And why? Well, as per my great revelation this morning
(it’s a gloomy Sunday – has this influenced my thinking?) the truth of any
statement, the basis for any pronouncement, the facts that support Rush’s,
Glenn’s and Michelle’s utterances matters not a whit. WHY?
Because:

THEY ARE SPEAKING THEIR MINDS!!!!!!!!

Before today, it never occurred to me that these fools were
being praised for simply uttering their thoughts no matter how dumb, stupid, or
abjectly false they might be. It’s
enough for the conservative set that they are very un-PC-like in their
utterances, filtering and holding back nothing no matter how racist, bigoted,
hurtful or inappropriate - political correctness being some socialistic plot to
take their guns away thereby paving the way for the blue-helmeted UN troop
takeover. (Or some such conspiratorial
scenario.) It only matters that the red blooded true Americans, the only patriots, the fighters for freedom
and democracy are letting it all hang out: that “they are speaking their minds.” This whole
“power to truth” thing has to end sooner than later or we will go the
way of Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.

On the other hand I do kinda understand the praise of
“speaking one’s mind” as a counter to our politically correct language and
inoffensive speech patterns we are prone to adopt. Tell me this: how many times have you wanted
to turn around and shout at the person sitting behind you in a movie theater: “WOULD YOU STOP RATTLING THE FUCKING POPCORN
BAG SO I CAN HEAR THE GOD-DAMN MOVIE!
ASSHOLE! Of course. And therein lies, I gently suggest, the
rationale that underlies the praise for
“Speaking One’s Mind.”

Have a good day!

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